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Fairlight Crystal Core CC-1 Installation Manual

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CC-1 Crystal Core
Installation Guide
4th December 2006
Version 1.0
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  • Page 1 CC-1 Crystal Core Installation Guide 4th December 2006 Version 1.0...
  • Page 2 Table of Contents...

  • Page 3: Setting Up The Computer

    SigmaTel High Definition Audio CODEC Network: Broadcom NetXtreme 57xx Gigabit Controller Windows XP Professional English 5.1 (build 2600 Service Pack 2) Hard Drives Your Fairlight CC-1 System should already have been configured according to the following: The CD-ROM has been removed...
  • Page 4 Apart from the System Hard Drive, 3 extra SATA drives have been added to the system. 2 are used as Audio Drives, 1 is used as a Video Drive. The 2 Audio Drives have been mounted using 2 Serial SATA 3.5" HD Mobile Racks & Removable Trays. See photo.
  • Page 5 Any SATA hard drive may be used for this … 7200 RPM or above. 8Mb cache minimum. System Board Components / Card Layout The Dell™ computer provides the following slots for PCI and PCI Express cards: Three PCI card slots §...
  • Page 6 Important DO NOT INSTALL the CC-1 card until all other devices with their respective drivers are all properly installed, Bios is correctly upgraded, and the computer is running happily and strong. Note: We have also observed that some “stock” DELL Windows XP installations require a complete XP re-install in order to correctly accept the CC-1 card.
  • Page 7 C C -1 C ard /S of tware ins tall at io n : Step1 Shutdown the computer. Step2 Install the CC-1 card into the PCI-E ( 4 lane slot ) Step3 Power on the computer. Step4 Windows will detect the card as a “default” à PCI to PCI Bridge ( Found new hardware PCI device ) and bring up the installation Wizard:...
  • Page 8 Step7 Browse to Start/All Programs/Fairlight/Dream II/Dream II Utils/ … and click on <Install Crystal Drivers>. You will be prompted to add these components to the Windows registry. Click <Yes>...
  • Page 9 Step8 Browse to Start/All Programs/Fairlight/Dream II/Dream II Utils/ … and click on <Program Crystal>. This will automatically “Flash” the CC-1 with the appropriate CORE. This takes about 15-20 seconds. You will observe a “DOS” window displaying FLASH progress. Step9 Turn off Windows visual effects … Browse to à Control Panel/System Properties/Advanced/Performance/Visual Effects …...
  • Page 10 C:\WINDOWS\WinSxS Step 10 Only If it is a full and clean install from “scratch” on the PC … There is one more “manual” operation to do before you launch DRYICE for the first time. Step 10 Please go to the FTP site and download the file WinSXS.zip. Use the new DryIce ftp area at ftp.fairlightau.com: Username=dryice Password=snowflake...

  • Page 11: S U Rface S E T Up

    S u rface S e t up Step 1 Browse to: Start/All Programs/Fairlight/FMC/FMC Utils/Surface Manager Step 2 Launch the application: This should look very familiar … as this is now the equivalent to “DreamStart”.
  • Page 12 This is where you can set up your appropriate panels and surface types. Step 3 Hit <Edit-Config> … to start setting up your panels and surface type. Please note that for Satellite II … you should use Console type “Station” / Panel 1 / and “type”...
  • Page 13 S e tti n g U p Gra phics /Dis pla ys On a system that has been pre-configured by Fairlight, you should not have to change your graphics settings. But you will need to set up your graphics again if you change your screen settings or graphics card.
  • Page 14 We will work on streamlining this procedure. Keep in mind that you DO NOT have to do this on a working setup. DO NOT TRY THIS if you don’t need to, and the procedure WILL NEVER WORK if your displays are not set up correctly per the graphics caveats. Afterwards you can go into System_Variables.txt and edit the following lines to get a real “tight fit”...
  • Page 16 Ge neral C o nnec ti on /S e tu p I nf orma ti on CC-1 and SX20 The connection needed between the CC-1 card and the SX20 requires a DVI-I dual link cable – male to male.
  • Page 17 II PC. Extreme USB Connection Your Extreme USB cable is provided by Fairlight. It is a standard Ethernet cable terminated by RJ-45 connectors. At the PC end, plug it into the connector shown below. If your system is a Station, simply plug the other end into the RJ-45 connector at the rear.
  • Page 18 Rear view of the BMIX002A circuit board, showing the RJ-45 connector at the right. Information Extreme PCI is a Fairlight method of carrying many USB signals down one cable. It uses a standard Ethernet cable, and connects to a dedicated card in your DREAM II PC. If your DREAM II system is a 5-bay Constellation/Anthem, your PC will be configured with two Extreme USB cards, and you will be supplied with two cables.
  • Page 19 ATTENTION : Please do not tamper with other functions of this test program, as these are used for advanced diagnostics and “playing around” with these parameters could endanger the card. SX20 Test – This is a diagnostic utility for the SX20 … stay tuned, full documentation §...
  • Page 20 SX20 Flash – With certain DREAM II software updates, it will be necessary to “flash” the § actual SX20 firmware. There is a program located in C:\Program Files\Fairlight\DreamII\SX20 Flash\ that permits you to do this. The Flash program uses the CC1 card and the DVI cable to program the on board flash of the SX20.
  • Page 21 Joe Hammer / FairlightAu December 06...

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